No, not as a duty. Classical Muslim scholars read one verse of the Qur’an, 4:34, as permitting a husband to strike a defiant wife as a last resort, without injury and never on the face. Many Muslim scholars today read the verse as a symbolic gesture, as a narrow permission, or as not meaning “strike” at all. What does Qur’an 4:34 say? The verse belongs to the fourth chapter of the Qur’an, Surat al-Nisa (“Women”). In the Saheeh International translation,…

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